SF News Attorney General Kamala Harris May Face Ethics Inquiry Re: Gifts From Interior Designer Ken Fulk On an anonymous tip alleging that she received gifts from friend and San Francisco interior designer Ken Fulk in violation of the law, a state ethics agency says it may investigate California Attorney
Arts & Entertainment Warriors' Owner, Fiancée, Did Naughty Bedtime Stuff With NBA Trophy “I had made a promise to myself [that] I would sleep with the trophy that night,” Warriors majority owner and former managing partner at Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers Joe Lacob tells Haute
Arts & Entertainment Drone Video Distraction: Fly From Pier 45 To Alcatraz In 2015, the Bird Man of Alcatraz wouldn't mess around with flighty pigeons. He'd have drones. Helping us imagine what that might look like is the above video. Yep, it's over a mile,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alert: Four Barrel Coffee Is Free In Portola Today Can you hear that? Portola Planet is ringing the coffee deal bells this morning. The announcement: Four Barrel is giving java away, and no, you won't find this deal on Valencia. (function(d,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Now Open At Former Ino Sushi Space In Japantown: Sushi An When famously fastidious and, yes, sometimes fascistic Ino Sushi closed in the Japantown Mall after 37 years, it left a small physical void to fill and a large emotional one. Tying to fill
Arts & Entertainment The SFist To-Do List: 12 Cool Things To Check Out This Week From art openings to open art studios, this week is a feast for the eyes. These events are among the more promising we came across, so enjoy! TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3 ELECTION WATCH PARTY:
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink The Orbit Room Reopens Thursday Night! After the death of owner Jay Johnson, the Orbit Room abruptly closed this spring, marking the end of 20 years in business and causing a lot of sadness around the neighborhood. But just
SF News Twitter Trades 'Favorite' Stars For 'Like' Hearts In the Twitterverse, until today at least, a tap of the star icon nominally indicated that something was a user's "favorite." But "faving," as the gesture was abbreviated, came to express much more
SF News Napster Co-Founder Sean Parker To Fund CA Marijuana Legalization Ballot Measure Sean Parker plans to give away all his money before he dies, and he's not just going to blow it on whatever drugs he might have been doing in this picture, taken at
SF News 'Curated' Retail Booths Arriving At BART Stations This Week BART trains are, occasionally, delayed and/or too crowded for you to fit on. But for Blinq, a newly founded Bay Area company that's negotiated an exclusive retail deal with the regional transit
SF News 'Yes On F' Supporters (And Brass Band) Protest Loudly In Airbnb HQ Lobby A small village of house-shaped signs pillorying Airbnb's recent ad campaign blunder spun like a massive mobile in the atrium of 888 Brannan, Airbnb headquarters, this afternoon. "Evictions. Love, Airbnb," and "Homelessness. Love,
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink SFist Interviews: Mark Bittman On His Bay Area Turn From The Times To A Vegan Food Startup "This isn’t about ‘veganism,’" writes Mark Bittman in an essay published today on the website of the Purple Carrot, the food startup he's joined as Chief Innovation Officer. Moving on from his
SF News Day Around The Bay: Plan To Raze Lucky 13 For Condos Reaches 'Rapid Pace' That weird Glen Park lot sold for a cool $165K. [Socketsite] Remember when the Castro had Halloween parties? [SFGate] “Should a Techie Run San Francisco?,” asks one radio report. [WBUR] Sunset residents oppose
SF News 'Thrinder', Tinder For Three-Ways, Raises $500K If you're of the (closed) mind that two's company and three's a crowd, dating app 3nder, pronounced "Thrinder," would like you to "Kink Different." Like Tinder, but with a partner or solo, you
SF News Photo Du Jour: I'm 24th Street BART Gumby, Damnit! 24th Street BART has always been a hub for interesting characters, never more so than on Halloween. Okay, it may just be All Hallows' Eve eve, or whatever, but don't tell that to
SF News Times Article Celebrates Airbnb, Fails To Mention Writer Is Spouse Of Company Investor Marc Andreessen In a forehead-slapping conflict of interest that probably anyone in Silicon Valley could have pointed out to the New York Times, that publication's style magazine, T, lauded a list of five entrepreneurs “harnessing
SF News Dog Ingests PCP At Fort Funston, Still Wigging Out Weeks Later A two-year-old Bernese Mountain Dog was just trying to have some good, clean fun with its owners at popular canine haunt Fort Funston. But Pat Schoof and her husband tell KRON4 that their
Arts & Entertainment 'The Hunt For The Unicorn Company' As Told In Medieval Tapestries Hanging today in The Cloisters of New York, The Hunt for the Unicorn Company is perhaps the most famous series of tapestries in human history, numbering seven in total, six of which survive
SF News BMW Carjacked In Castro/Safeway Heights A man was threatened with a gun and his car was stolen in the Castro this week, the Bay Area Reporter writes. Officer Albie Esparza says the incident occurred at 12:50 a.
SF News [Update] How An Anonymous Airbnb Host Once Sought Six Figures By Illegally Re-Renting Six Apartments "With trading, you look for arbitrage opportunities, where you have an opportunity to buy things for cheaper and sell them for more," a San Francisco Airbnb host anonymously confided in his guest, an
SF News Day Around The Bay: Fast Times At Oracle High "Guys, it’s like an Italian dining room table," said head coach of the embattled 49ers Jim Tomsula. "Everybody’s sitting around the table, things get heated, dishes get broke and people leave.
SF News Amazon Prime Now Couriers Are Latest To Seek Legal Recourse For Employee Benefits Free two-hour delivery has some high hidden costs for its providers, and Amazon isn't paying those in full, or so alleges a new lawsuit seeking class-action status. Al Jazeera America and Reuters report
Arts & Entertainment Video: The New York Times Spends 36 (Very Rosy) Hours In San Francisco The New York Times travel section is blowing up your local spot. In the latest in their series, the paper spends 36 hours in San Francisco (perhaps all they could afford?) and seems
SF News Mission To Lose 8,000 Latino Residents By 2025, Report Warns If trends as we know them continue, the Budget and Legislative Analyst’s Office predicts that, as a proportion of the Mission District, the percentage of Latinos will decline from 48 percent in
Arts & Entertainment Photos: Heavily Instagrammed Rainbow Over SF Double rainbow over SF @NWSBayArea pic.twitter.com/Z3jy5y9MtO— Scot Hampton (@shamptonian) October 28, 2015 It was going to rain. Really it was! Like, a lot. But, you see... While Mother Nature appeared